Beyond Baking

Menna from Menna Rachel has nominated me for the Mystery Blogger Award. Menna is an aspiring make up artist who shares her journey to becoming a make up artist, book reviews and baking recipes! You can head find her blog here.

What is the Mystery Blogger Award?

“Mystery Blogger Award” is an award for amazing bloggers with ingenious posts. Their blog not only captivates; it inspires and motivates. They are one of the best out there, and they deserve every recognition they get. This award is also for bloggers who find fun and inspiration in blogging, and they do it with so much love and passion. (Okoto Enigma, Award Creator.)

What to do?

Put the award logo/image on your blog.

List the rules.

Thank whoever nominated you and provide a link to their blog.

Mention the creator of the award and provide a link as well.

Tell your readers 3 things about yourself.

You have to nominate 10 – 20 people.

Notify your nominees by commenting on their blog.

Ask your nominees any 5 questions of your choice; with one weird or funny question (specify).

Share a link to your best post(s).

Three things about me:

I am a walking contradiction. I like dressing up but rarely do as I like wearing oversize jerseys and feeling comfortable. I’m very creative but also very analytical. I love all things gothic and horror yet my I’m also quite girly at heart.

I watch the first Harry Potter movie whenever I’m sick. I remember watching it during the night when I was around 8 years old when I couldn’t sleep due to chicken pox and have since found it comforting whenever I feel run down.

I recently moved to Australia from New Zealand.

Questions Menna Asked

Which is better, beans on toast or fish fingers and custard? Hmm I’m going to have to say beans on toast. I could actually eat that combination and I have in the past, where as, I am not a fan of of fish or custard and together sounds like hell!

Where’s your favourite place, and why? That is a really tough question! I have a lot of favourite places in terms of travel but nothing beats home. Home in New Zealand as it is where I am the most comfortable. Where I can be myself, relax with a good movie and cuddle my cats!

What has been your favourite part of your blogging journey so far? Another tough one! Probably a mixture of learning all the new skills I have. Without blogging I wouldn’t have taught myself website design, development, social media managing, marketing and all that goes with running a blog/business. Also all the recipes I get to create and ‘taste test’. 😉

What’s your Hogwarts house? Until today I have never taken that test but I just took the test and I am apparently in Gryffindor for my bravery, courage, risk taking and leadership skills.

Do you prefer to watch films or read books? Both. I love reading. I read all the time and movie adaptations will never beat the book I also adore movies. If you didn’t already know I am an aspiring film maker so movies are a big passion and huge part of my life!

My Top 5 Blog Posts

Thank you, Menna, for nominating me! This is such a fun experience and it’s great to connect with more bloggers, share some of my favourite blog posts and engage with readers. Be sure to check out everyone’s blog, I’ve put all of their links above!

Hi guys! It’s been a while since I’ve posted about any life updates, blog updates and just generally chatted with you so I thought I start off with a bang and say I have a new logo!

New Logo Thoughts

I love it! I feel like the logo is simple but combines my passion for baking with my passion for photography and film making. The logo is simple but bold and combines the colour scheme I chose on a whim two years ago but a colour scheme I have come to love. I was lucky enough to have Katherine Dickerson (http://girlonthewander.com/) design it for me. If you get a chance, definitely go check her out!

How was everybody’s weekend? I had a weekend packed full of adventure. Saturday was spent at the movies seeing Trainspotting 2 (This will be discussed more on Thursday…). I then spent the rest of the day at Americana. If you don’t know what Americana is, it a yearly event where people enter their American cars. They can be new, vintage, unusual, yellow school buses, police cars, etc. They shut down the main road of whatever town they happen to be in and theirs food stalls, bands and just a general good day for the family. Although I don’t have much interest in cars, it’s always fun just to stroll around in the atmosphere of it all.

Today’s post is going to be a little different. I called this Bite of Real Life as if is more of an update on Life and on where Lights, Camera, BAKE! is at and where I hope it is heading for the future.

For those of you who know me, you know I am passionate about film making and of course baking. I work a part-time job to to pay my bills while also running Lights, Camera, BAKE!. I hope in the near future I will be able to turn this blog into an income source and expand this blog even further. As you may know I have already begun that with the Ultimate Baking Conversion Booklet and the Pre Mix Jars. I am in the process of writing a cookbook (YAY!) and there will be more news on that soon.

Yes you read that right. I have created The Ultimate Baking Conversion Booklet! The only conversion guide you will ever need!

You may remember that I mentioned this in an earlier post a few weeks ago announcing some exciting news. Since releasing that post, I have been researching and diligently tweaking and re-tweaking this booklet until I was completely satisfied with the final product. Now the day has arrived to unveil this ebooklet to you all and I am so so happy and so so excited!!